Porto Velho Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Since I last wrote, we have covered a lot of ground. After leaving the coastal region and OUro Preto, we have had long driving days to cover the length of Brazil´s vast interior. We have travelled across a dramatic and varied landscape: some times we were driving across vast, uninhabited rolling ranges of hills, with broad skies and no sign of l...

When we first read we´d be going on an "Amazon river cruise" for four days, from the old rubber town of Manaus down to Puerto Vello, it conjured up old colonial imaginations of sipping a G&T on the deck of an old steamer while being offered canapes before retiring to our predominantly mahogany fitted bedroom (with free standing bath). Natura...

a day late, we arrived in porto velho...decisions to be made about taxis and busses...we jumped in a cab for a 4 hr journey to guarajamerin costing us about 20 quid each so not bad..!

Day 7 - we woke up early, went to the airport and got tickets to Cuiabá. Then we spent the rest of the day sightseeing Porto Velho, a real frontier town. It is the capital of the state of Rondônia in Brazil, but it actually resembles a big farm, not a capital city. - in the late afternoon we flew to Cuiabá. We stayed at the Youth Hostel there. T...

Caminhamos da rodoviária ao centro da cidade logo cedo, antes do povo acordar. Não sabiamos o que esperar do norte brasileiro, era como descobrir que "Rondônia existe". A cidade é caótica, barulhenta, porém animada. A estrutura turística é tão rudimentar que a secretaria de turismo não sabia o que fazer para informar e agradar. Conhecemos Bototô...

Knowing I had only a few days to get to the first riverboat I planned to take, I did my best to get going quickly after my jungle trek. Of course it didn't work out as planned. The night bus out of Rurrenbaque was booked so I had to spend another night there and take the next day's late morning departure. It was supposed to be about a 15 hour tr...

Flocks of shimmering green parrots seem to be playing with us as they flew just fast enough to keep in front of us until suddenly they darted off and disappeared. The morning sun sheds it's light on the birds', illuminating colours; bright reds, greens, yellows, blues. Everyday parrots, macaws, toucans and others fly across our path, keeping us ...

Todo el mundo me tomaba por loco. Iba a hacer 60 horas de bus ! ¨Eres loco, va en avión¨. ¨La ruta es muy mala, es temporada de lluvia¨. Gracias a todos estos comentarios, me preparé para vivir horas y horas, días y días viviendo un bus. Sesenta horas son casi 3 días !! Durmiendo en el bus cual ni siquiera era uno preparado para viajes largo (ll...

Sunday morning, we were up at 5 to catch our early morning flight to Porto Velho. The flight was delayed by about an hour. This flight was really amazing though as we flew over the Amason rive and rain forest, great views of the forest like a massive green carpet and the meandering Amazon. There are hardly no towns between Manaus and Porto Velho...

Saturday September 29th leaving for Manaus In theory the boat, Dois Irmaos II, left at 2pm, so Barb in her usual panicky self (we did not have the time written down and they told us in Portuguese) got us leaving the hotel about 10.30am. This would give us more than enough time to get our stuff to the boat, go back into town for lunch, buy snacks...